Too many characters to twit

[scarfman]

I've been reading the novels in Fleet of Worlds series by Larry Niven and Edward M. Lerner. They're a subset of Niven's Known Space series of stories. They're retellings from new points of view - if not from new characters - of events in the Known Space universe I barely remember from reading all Niven's extant work off my brother's shelf in the mid-1970s (and from occasional rereadings since).

Basically they're Known Space fanfiction with the original creator as coauthor.